I need help in locating the windows 10 product key for my Hp laptop I have lost the box and the disc since I have recently moved and cannot locate them I've looked under the battery pack and did not see the key code there.

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Update: Thanks to the comments, below are the other hotkeys that you can try depending on your Dell laptop model.Hold down Alt and press F10 key. Dell 14 Inspiron 7000. Dell Inspiron 15. Dell Inspiron 2016. Dell Inspiron 17 5000 seriesHold down Fn and press F10 key. Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series (Or CTRL + F10). Dell Latitude E5550.

Dell Latitude E7450/ E7470 (Or Alt + F10)Press F10 key. Dell XPS 2016/ XPS 13Press Fn + F6 key. Dell Studio 15Note: While pressing Fn or Alt, hit the F10 key 3 times to toggle between off, medium lit and fully lit. I have had my Inspiron 5558 signature edition. I bought it over a year ago and I was used to the backlit keyboard on my previous Dell, where you could turn it on, and change it to different levels of brightness.Long-story-short, after I had the laptop for a few days, I had one BIG complaint and nothing I could do would fix it: the 5558’s keyboard light kept turning off after 10 sec AND there are only a couple brightness levels and they’re controlled with the F10 key and you go from Off, to bright, to low, to Off, etc. NOTHING that I did, though, would keep the lights on any longer.

They’d come back on only I would either touch a key or ”hover” my hand over the middle of the alphabet part of the keyboard. Unlike my older Dell, there was NO way to make the light stay on.It pissed me off when I was typing something in a low-light situation, and took 15 seconds to get a sip of water or try to think what I was typing, looking something up, etc and NO DAMNED lights on my keyboard. So, I called Dell (this was when the thing had been in my house for only a week). I got a lady who tried to walk me through stuff and she was stymied too as to why I couldn’t make it work right. She suggested a total ”reset” and I told her that I’d spent a couple days getting the stuff from my previous Dell laptop onto it and I ”suffered” the whole time, so that wasn’t an option. So, she said she’d get a specialist and this guy came on the line with us, and he tried the same things, said the same ”reset to factory-new” conditions and I told him I wasn’t gonna do THAT.He asked me to hold and after 10 min or so, came back on the phone and told me that he had to talk to ”people over him,” and they said that the machine was behaving as it was supposed to.

I'm hopeful you can help me with my problem.I recently purchased a new MSI laptop with Windows 10 Home Edition already installed. I asked the authorized re-seller to perform a clean Windows installation so as not to have to deal with bloatware.When my laptop arrived, I skipped the activation step when I first booted it up - I didn't have a disk or email receipt with the product key, after all, and from what I understand, with Windows 10 manufacturers no longer put a sticker on the device with the product key.

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Then I started getting nag messages telling me Windows wasn't activated. When I went to Settings, it said that my product key is already in use by another PC. Any attempts to 'change product key' result in freezing the Settings window, and I have to go to the Task Manager to end the task.I have been working with both MSI and the re-seller to try to figure out how to fix this, but it's taking some time and I'm getting impatient.

And therefore, I have been researching on my own as well.:) But it would seem that the re-seller messed up the clean installation, possibly by using an incorrect version of Windows, such as Professional.My laptop did not arrive with a Windows disk. I have 2 drives - a small SSD on which Windows is installed, and a large secondary hard drive. Disk management is showing a recovery partition on both drives, but they have 100% free space.So, I have many questions, but these are my 2 big ones:1. Can I use the OEM key to get Windows to activate? I found a utility to show the key, and instructions on Microsoft's website to activate Windows with a different product key using command prompts.2. Or would it be better to reset the PC? Will that pickup with original product key, instead of the one the re-seller used?

I'm concerned that I'll be prompted to put my Windows disk or recovery disk in, of which I have neither.I'm not so impatient that I'm going to make any changes on my own without authorization from MSI and the re-seller. But I would appreciate your input. Superfly, it's interesting you mentioned the re-seller used the same edition. When I contacted the re-seller, he indicated that I could skip the activation step during boot, and it would automatically detect the key from the BIOS and activate on its own. But when the issue didn't resolve and I started getting the nag message on my screen, something else was clearly up.I appreciate the advice, and I will try the command prompt using the OEM key. I am hoping it won't be anything more complicated than that.

But with my weird work schedule I probably won't be able to do much of anything until Monday evening or Tuesday morning, and I'll probably also have heard back from MSI and the re-seller by then.I'll post an update to let you know how it all works out, and if I need more help!:)Edit - had some time tonight - and it worked! Thank you again.

Thank you to the person that posted this problem and a bigger thank you for this response. I also purchased my laptop from a re-seller who had no idea what to do after he had restored the machine and sold it to me. I also didn't have a product key. I used ShowKeyPlus and I was able to use the OEM Key to activate my Windows. Thank you so muchFrom an elevated command prompt ('run as administrator' command prompt) type:SLMGR /UPKthen typeSLMGR /IPK xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx using the original OEM key provided by showkey.Then type SLMGR /ATO.

Thank you to the person that posted this problem and a bigger thank you for this response. I also purchased my laptop from a re-seller who had no idea what to do after he had restored the machine and sold it to me. I also didn't have a product key.

I used ShowKeyPlus and I was able to use the OEM Key to activate my Windows. Thank you so muchFrom an elevated command prompt ('run as administrator' command prompt) type:SLMGR /UPKthen typeSLMGR /IPK xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx using the original OEM key provided by showkey.Then type SLMGR /ATOA first post of thanx is what makes developing so worthwhile.BTW. Bigup to @ - seems we have a new recruit - @ (Windows 7), me (Windows 8) now John as the activation go-to guys.